,7 P! iatly @ QloUfgtan b OF THE PEi -i- VOL: 40—No. <0 Hatmsn Sponsor Pill Game Raffle The senand Victory Raffle, spon sored ( by All-College Cabinet, wili be conducted •by members of the hat societies, during intermission of the Pitt-Lion basketball game Saturday. Raffle tickets, which will be giv en ; with purchases of 25 and 50 cent War-Stamps, will be distrib uted by members of hat societies from 8 until 11 p.m. Friday, and from 2 to 4:30 p.m.- Saturday at the', Comer Room. War Stamps, will also be sold at tlm .balcony and .-.main floor en trances to Rec Hall before game time‘Saturday evening. ■ ■ Prizes, according to Chairman William ivi. Briner ’44, will include the game basketball and two $5 credit slips contributed by Paul Mitten - and . the Charles Fellow Shop'. Albert Swan ’44, hat soci ety council president, will draw for. the winning numbers. ■ The first Victory Raffle, con ducted during the Penn State-Col gate game, resulted in the sale of $232.50 worth of War Stamps and a War Bond. The $3OO used to pur chase stamps for the raffle is lent by WRA. •' LA Sludertf Council Approves New Preamble To School Constitution ' u ’'AC''he“w' 'pfeSmhle "to v th e'cOns ti tution .ojf the Liberal Arts Student Council was approved by members of the governing body at last; night’s meeting. Charles F. Hall, secretary-treasurer, drew up the preamble. ' ~'' 1 ;■ The council voted to endorse the ■ reopening of ■ Drydock provided,. a good, financial organisation is pre sented-to Cabinet. ; . Revision of the constitution is also .under; discussion arid will he voted upon by the council follow ing, completion of , a draft being drawn up by .committee members Michael .A.' Blatz, Hall, Walter C. ; Price; and Audrita" 7 Summers. . • : 'Upon a suggestion of the Stu dent-Faculty : Relations Commit ted',' /presented by Richard Adams, ;a''plan to support the weekly dis tribution of placards listing Col lege activities throughout the se •mester was approved by council members'. ' 1 • IMMucations Needed...? r . Ciscussion • of male students continuing-school, as. well as pos f ' sible status of women is included h in tjie. third' of : the Gollegian seri f. es of. questions • and : answers as ■ compiled by the. Office of War In forination: . Does the country really need ' more, educated, men now? Or should we all plan to go either into' the Army or into production jobs? ; The problem is how many men can be kept in schools and colleges • to provide the trained, educated -f personnel needed for both the armed services and the war in dustries, while we also meet'the iniipediate requirements, .of the i • armed'iorces and of industries. So . far they, are free to do, it is wiser. for men to continue their educa - tlonbut to'direqt their studies to .ward greater war usefulness. , ■ To what extenfcan'an 18 or 19- year-old now plan his own future? r;:;: Neither 18 or 19-year-olds nor gi.men of any other age can plan' at their- futures now independent of WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17. 1943. STATE COLLEGE, PA Six BtyOC's Will Fight for Title Of Most Eligible Bachelor at 'Skip' The race is on to decide who will-H be King Dogpatch, Catch of the Campus, at the annual Cwens- Mortar Board Spinster Skip Fri day; March 12. Local Sadie Hawkinses and L’il Abners are urged by Hekzeb'iah Hawkins, official proclaimer of Dogpatch news, to get out and vote Mr then- ' ehoice' Tbf King ' Dog patch BMOC’s worthy of vieing for the honor of being crowned the Catch of the Campus are Bill Briner, in terclass finance council chairman; Rube Faloon, senior class presi dent; Jackie ' Grey, All-College president; Hank: Keller,-IFC presi dent; Ben Leaman, All-College vice-president; George Pittenger, AA president, and Cliff St. Clair, junior, class. president. Hawkins warned that no mud slinging would be tolerated in this all-important, election. “The ; cam paign must be kept clean,” he asr serted. Voting begins today, at Student .'Union and the Corner Room, arid will continue until Tuesday. . . Announcement of .the ,three lead ing candidates and final elimina tions will be made next Wednes day. Balloting will follow to elect King Dogpatch. - ■ he, service required by the War. Very,few people are planning * heir futures definitely at the pres ent time. Winning the war requires that a certain proportion of 18 and 19-year-old men continue their studies. You have a plan for training and using college men for war. But this is a loial war. What plans have you for training and using college women? Women are able to do most things which men customarily do, in or der to relieve men to do the things which only men can do in the war. Women should train for' a wide range of activities. The War Man power Commission is developing proposals for utilizing colleges and universities for training both men ranck women in a wide variety of activities useful in the war ef :ort. Announcement of these plans' will.be .made in the near future, but-in the meantime colleges are oing forward as they should, de veloping all sorts of useful cur ricula for women; Successor To The Free Lav.ce, Established 1337 '.NNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE First Fly Tying Class Starts in Frear Lab; Forty Kits Available Opening of the fishing season will catch some Penn State stu dents unawares. First of eigld ses sions on the df fly- wflf be conducted from 7 to 9 p.m. to day in 213 Frear Laboratory, spon sored by the School of Physical Education' and Athletics and the School of Agriculture. • Forty kits, containing equipment for 50 flies, are available for three dollars. Enrollment in the classes, which emphasize instruction on dry, wet, nymphs, bucktails and streamers, will be limited to 40 persons. ’ Instructors are Prof. George W. Harvey, former track coach",. ajt Mont Alto,-- and Prof. Gordon Trembly, one. of the: foremost ex perts on .fly casting in the state. Tryouts for Thespian Cast To Be Held Tonight ' Thespians will hold tryouts for m.ajor singing 'and dialogue roles in- Schwab auditorium at 7 p, m. tonight, Cadmus Goss, .production managed, announced. “As soon as parts have been permanently cast ed, production will be well on its way,” Goss added. Already,, the dancing’ chorus is learning its routines. The script is almost complete,, two acts and 13 scenes: Several songs of different types, written by Jane Abramson arid Charles H. Taylor, are in the process of orchestral arrangement. ■This show will be the 46th an nual production of the Thespian organization. It is being directed by J. Ewing “Sock” Kennedy. Name Frizzell Advisor In Discussion Contest John H. Frizzell, head of the de partment of public speaking, has been appointed as a member of the advisory committee for .the na tional discussion contest on Inter- American affairs. Professor Frizzell has also been named to the committee on state arid regional speech associations of the National Association of Teachers of Speech. Both appoint ments were by virtue of his posi tion as president of the Eastern Public Speaking Conference. Cold Air from Canada Cause of Cold Snap “The recent cold snap can be attributed to the cold air stream ing down from the snow fields of Canada,” according to Dr. Hans H. Neuberger, head of the department of geophysics in the School of Min eral Industries. Neuberger reveal ed that the thermometer registered seven degrees below zero Monday and four degrees above zero yes terday. Dr. Neuberger is conducting a survey with competition between professors and students to deter mine how accurate a forecast can be from local observation. Predic tions are made daily and checked with the official weather report. Committee Alters Swarthout Date Change in the date of Gladys Swarthout’s concert from Monday, March 22, to, Tuesday, March 23, was made toy the Artists’ Course committee yesterday. Request for the change, accord ing to Dr. Car] E. Marquardt, com mittee chairman, came from Miss Swarthout and her management. “It was found,” Dr. Marquardt said, “that it was almost impossi ble for Miss Swarthout to com plete her Sunday night broadcast and get to State College in .time for a Monday concert. The com mittee voted to comply with her request.” Excellent-tickets 4ire..stiU avail; able for each of the next two Art ists’ Course numbers, according to the .chairman. . ' Carmen Amaya. and her troupe of. gypsy dancers and musicians will give a. performance Monday, February 22. Individual tickets for this number 'will be sold for $2 plus tax. Single ’ tickets for the Swarthout concert will toe priced at $3 plus tax. Late News Flashes... ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, new commander-in-chief of the Aliled Medi terranean naval forces, announced today that American-and British shipping losses had been less than two per cent in bringing-780 ships totaling 6,500,000 tons to North Africa since November 8. BERLIN—The German high command announced last night that; Russian forces had entered the outer suburbs of Kharkov 1 . In a Ra dio communique they also stated that in lighting in the suburbs. 2<t Soviet tanks were destroyed. PHILADELPHIA—The . cold wave’s death toll reached five in. Pennsylvania and 26 throughout the East as the thermometer in State College fell to an official low of seven degrees below zero. SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA—The American portion of Gen eral Douglas MacArlhur's air force employed full range of its com bat branches yesterday in dealing further smashing blows at the Jap anese, most severe of which was a second successive night assault on Rabaul. ALLIED HEARQUARTERS IN NORTH,, AFRICA—The Nazis have entered American-held Gafsa in Tunsia Allied headquarters an nounced yesterday. General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters said small enemy forces rolled in Gafsa Monday evening—thereby threatening to cut the 300-mile-long Allied front near the middle —and said heavy fighting between armored forces raged in the area west of Paid. Gafsa lies 75 miles west of the Gulf of Gabes. At the same time, General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s British Eighth Army was officially reported to have captured Ben Gardane, 20. miles inside Tunisia, and sped on in pursuit of Marshal Erwin. Rommel’s legions. MOSCOW—The advancing Russian Army has cracked Adolf Hil ler's southern battle front along a 400-mile line from the regions of) Orel Province to Bolshie Saly. 36 miles northeast of Taganrog, and is closing the struggle about Kharkov and pushing three active spear heads into the Donets basin, the Russian comminque announced lasO night. 1 PRICE: THREE CENTS Classes Continue During Air Raid, Ebert Explains Professors Urged To Explain Procedure Students must attend all classes this morning despite inconvenience resulting from the air raid drill scheduled from 10:30 to 11:15, it was pointed out • by George W. Ebert, superintendent of grounds and buildings and chairman of the County Defense Council. Pedestrian traffic will be per mitted from 10:50 to 11:00 when classes usually change, but no one will be allowed on walks from 11:00 to 11:15 when the alb clear signal will sound. This means that students and professors may pos sibly be late for classes and that the “ten-minutes-late” ruling will not be in effect. . The drill has been planned for instruction purposes and during the period of the practice instruc tors are urged to take time to ex plain drill procedure and a new blue signal to be used for the first time, Mr. Ebert explained. The yellow. signal, which is the usual preliminary warning, will; sound at 10:30, followed by the blue signal which is the' first audi ble warning. The .blue signal is of two minutes duration. The red signal is a fluctuating’ blast ' of two minutes’ duration which indicates that enemy planes are overhead! Another blue signal will be sounded following the red warn ing. This is not an all-clear but means -that immediate danger is over. The blast will be a long blast of two minutes duration. The white signal or all-clear will not be audible. It will .be. an nounced by blasts on police whis tles, according to Mr. Ebert.
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